Schedule

Session Topics

Attendees will hear from leading validation and quality professionals, as well as Kneat and industry experts to expand their understanding of the technologies and best practices to accelerate their digital maturity. The 2026 conference theme and agenda will be shared later this year.

"I love the experience. I've watched it grow over the last couple years, and it's amazing...the company has done a great job with promoting the system, the VALIDATE conference, and what Kneat can do to help promote greater productivity.”

Cindy White, Iovance Biotherapeutics

Tuesday

April 28

Wednesday

April 29

Thursday

April 30

5:00 pm

Reception

Customer and Partner Networking Reception

8:30 am

REGISTRATION

Customer Morning Registration & Breakfast

The Marker One

9:00 am

Welcome

Customer Conference Welcome

Colum McNamara

Senior Vice President of Global Operations

Kneat

9:15 am

Customer Session 1

Customer Only: Product Vision and Roadmap

Donal O’Sullivan

Chief Product Officer

Kneat

10:45 am

Customer Session 2

Customer Only: AI Vision and Roadmap

Donal O’Sullivan

Chief Product Officer

Kneat

Customer Session 3

Customer Only: Entities & CSV

Donal O’Sullivan

Chief Product Officer

Kneat

12:00 pm

Registration

General Attendee Registration & Lunch

1:00 pm

Welcome

Conference Welcome

Eddie Ryan

CEO & Co-Founder

Kneat

1:15 pm

Keynote

Conference Keynote

2:05 pm

Session 1.1

How Digital Validation was a key enabler to MSD ONECQV (Combining C&Q - CSV)

Dave O’Connor

C&Q Digital Transformation Manager

No deviation

Yvonne Owens

Associate Director, EMEA CQV Lead

MSD

Session 1.2

Transforming Pharma Manufacturing: Sanofi's Journey Towards Digital Excellence in the Pharma 4.0 Era

Michele Ghinizzini

SVP, Head of Global Engineering & Maintenance

Sanofi

3:00 pm

Session 2.1

A Decade of Digital Validation: Biogen’s Journey to Digital Maturity

Edward Dornan

Senior Quality Associate

Biogen

Session 2.2

Kneat Product Session on CSV

Lorna Whelan

Senior Product Manager

Kneat

The Shannon

3:40 pm

Session 3

Kneat Innovative Customer Award Sessions

4:50 pm

Closing Remarks

Day 1 Conference Closing Remarks

5:00 pm

Reception

Drinks Reception

6:00 pm

Reception

Offsite Evening Reception

Croke Park

7:30 am

Breakfast

8:00 am

Welcome

Day 2 Conference Welcome and Partner Awards Presentation

Carey Ziegler

Manager of Partner Succes

Kneat

8:15 am

Session 4.1

Practical use of Kneat to standardize and simplify validation across global MODA-ES deployments at Lonza

Fokke Zijlstra

Managing Director

Holoceen Projects B.V.

Session 4.2

Kneat AI Vision and Road Map

Donal O’Sullivan

Chief Product Officer

Kneat

9:00 am

Session 5.1

Pfizer Digital Validation - More Details Coming Soon

Gisele Fahmi

Director, Content & Risk Mgmt Solutions Lead

Pfizer

Vasilios Tsatsaias

Manager EM Solution Owner

Pfizer

Session 5.2

Kneat Elogbooks

Lorna Whelan

Senior Product Manager

Kneat

9:45 am

Session 6.1

AI Validation Customer Panel

Session 6.2

Kneat Integrations

Joe Azzarella

Senior Customer Success Engineer

Kneat

Denis Bartley

Senior Integration Engineer

Kneat

10:45 am

Session 7.1

Driving Cost Reduction for C&Q Capital Projects with Digital Validation

Patrick Mullin

Commissioning and Qualification Lead

Sanofi

Session 7.2

How Alcon Uses Kneat as Catalyst for for Harmonization

Nathan Raschke

Head of Analytical Science & Technology

Alcon

Daniel Weingand

Head of Analytical Science and Technology

Alcon

11:30 am

Session 8.1

Digital Validation at Eli Lilly - More Details Coming Soon

Jeff Denault

Analytical Chemist Consultant

Eli Lilly

Session 8.2

State of Validation Survey Results

12:00 pm

Lunch

1:15 pm

Session 9.1

Mock Audit 2.0 Featuring Kneat Collections

Session 9.2

Data Integration Platform - a first step to digital twin

Grzegorz Janczewski

IT CSV Manager

Rezon Bio

2:00 pm

Session 10.1

Smart Commissioning in a Pharma 4.0 Smart Factory: A Digital CQV/CSV Ecosystem

Darren Crowe

Technical Lead – CQV & CSV

AstraZeneca

2:05 pm

Session 10.2

Kneat Cleaning Validation